My god, she is definitively a Horrible Person. I can't believe what she has done isn't criminal. Thanks for that link, SS. Quite an interesting read._________________Meaning is created internally by each individual in each specific life: any attempt at *meaning* which relies on some kind of external superstructure (God, Satan, the Creator, the Worm, whatever) for its substance misses the point (I mean the point of my story). -SRD

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth ... Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do-back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning. -Nietzsche

My god, she is definitively a Horrible Person. I can't believe what she has done isn't criminal. Thanks for that link, SS. Quite an interesting read.

Have you also read some of the comments? I never knew the extent of her harassment.... up to the point of compelling authors to change their manuscript because they didn't meet her sensibilities!_________________'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville

I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!

"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley

I do not know, it was one example out of 30+ of documented harassment, so even if that one example is thrown out we still have a pretty disturbing portrait.

Not that you ever had to ask her to get an "honest" critique on anything... sometimes, she didn't even have to read it!_________________'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville

I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!

"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley

It's not so much a defense, as it is a calling out of those who only criticise RH/BS, along with other things that have happened surrounding that issue. I'd say the post (which I read a couple days back) is not something I entirely agree with* but it's a perspective that is important to look at.

It is an interesting perspective. My problem is the way the author refuses to name RH/BS and only refers to her as "the Victim". It's a rhetorical method to distance RH/BS from what she did. Further, she is, to my mind, twisting the narrative. Suggesting that those coming out and telling their stories about their run in's RH/BS and her cohorts are somehow on par with RH/BS in doing what she did.

Respectfully to Tessa, RH/BS being a "POC" in no way excuses or diminishes what she did for going on a decade._________________"Futility is the defining characteristic of life. Pain is proof of existence" - Thomas Covenant

You know, I got through about half of that and my thought was "how come I never get invited to the White meetings where it's decided who gets the racist/sexist treatment this month?" There's a lot of talk of hegemony among the white power structure, and maybe at the top end there is, but there doesn't seem to be much room in this woman's world view for the idea of a white male who genuinely doesn't give a damn what colour your skin is, or which gender you like to suck face with.

As much as I can understand the feelings leading up to that world view, that's some of the stuff that has to change before true progress can be made. After all, what good is fighting for equality only to be among those you despise?

You know, I got through about half of that and my thought was "how come I never get invited to the White meetings where it's decided who gets the racist/sexist treatment this month?" There's a lot of talk of hegemony among the white power structure, and maybe at the top end there is, but there doesn't seem to be much room in this woman's world view for the idea of a white male who genuinely doesn't give a damn what colour your skin is, or which gender you like to suck face with.

As much as I can understand the feelings leading up to that world view, that's some of the stuff that has to change before true progress can be made. After all, what good is fighting for equality only to be among those you despise?

What's really bizarre is that RH's targets, according to the report posted above, are principally women... with a statistically significant emphasis on women of colour!

If you are campaigning against male whitie and you turn out to mostly harm vulnerable women of colour, something is wrong with your tactics._________________'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville

I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!

"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley

Which brings up a good point: now that the pendulum is swinging the other way, how should we treat RH? Eye-for-an-eye? Boycott?

It's good to have an understanding of what is going on, but it might do more good to engage in more "positive" protest. One doesn't need to join in a mob to drive RH out of SFF writing... and frankly, if she isn't using her energies in writing fiction what's to stop her returning to her previous activities?

Something better might be to check out the works of authors who had been affected, even if you never plan on checking out RH's writings._________________'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville

I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!

"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley

You know, I got through about half of that and my thought was "how come I never get invited to the White meetings where it's decided who gets the racist/sexist treatment this month?" There's a lot of talk of hegemony among the white power structure, and maybe at the top end there is, but there doesn't seem to be much room in this woman's world view for the idea of a white male who genuinely doesn't give a damn what colour your skin is, or which gender you like to suck face with.

As much as I can understand the feelings leading up to that world view, that's some of the stuff that has to change before true progress can be made. After all, what good is fighting for equality only to be among those you despise?

What's really bizarre is that RH's targets, according to the report posted above, are principally women... with a statistically significant emphasis on women of colour!

If you are campaigning against male whitie and you turn out to mostly harm vulnerable women of colour, something is wrong with your tactics.

I know. That's the problem I'm having in trying to figure out what's really going on.

I think it may ultimately have more to do with anger management issues than with any specific targets.

I've said it before. She's just a troll. Talented, maybe (I don't plan to find out), but you still deal with her like any other: remove her access when you can and ignore her when you can't. You can only kill a troll by starving it.

For instance, she said in Mark Williams' review, "Oh my. Look at the subhuman little turd utterly flipping out! Truly, my friends, I blog for this." Take away her raison d'etre, and she ceases to be.

Personally, I can find neither sympathy nor animosity for the person behind the masks. You get what you give._________________"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner

You know, I got through about half of that and my thought was "how come I never get invited to the White meetings where it's decided who gets the racist/sexist treatment this month?" There's a lot of talk of hegemony among the white power structure, and maybe at the top end there is, but there doesn't seem to be much room in this woman's world view for the idea of a white male who genuinely doesn't give a damn what colour your skin is, or which gender you like to suck face with.

As much as I can understand the feelings leading up to that world view, that's some of the stuff that has to change before true progress can be made. After all, what good is fighting for equality only to be among those you despise?

Good points. I also found it ironic that this person claims People of Color are not 'monolith' or 'legion,' and then in the next breath talks about white people as a 'hegemony,' as if we're all tied into the power structure, and we're all the same. This is just a racist rant against white people. It's worthless, hateful trash.

Perhaps I'm just naive, but I can't imagine that an industry which makes money off the written word is as invested in skin color as these haters would like us to believe. Skin color and sex is the last thing on my mind when I purchase a book. Many of the books I read are by people I've never even seen, not even in a photograph._________________Meaning is created internally by each individual in each specific life: any attempt at *meaning* which relies on some kind of external superstructure (God, Satan, the Creator, the Worm, whatever) for its substance misses the point (I mean the point of my story). -SRD

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth ... Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do-back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning. -Nietzsche